Top 100 Leo Tolstoy Love Quotes
#1. Love is a priceless gift. This is the only thing we can give and yet - it is all you have left...
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#2. All over?' he repeated. 'If I were not myself, but the handsomest, cleverest, and best man in the world, and were free, I would this moment ask on my knees for your hand and your love!
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#3. The improvement of life was only accomplished to the extent to which it was based on a change of consciousness, that is, to the extent to which the law of violence was replaced in men's consciousness by the law of love.
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#4. I have now understood that though it seems to men that they live by care for themselves, in truth it is love alone by which they live.
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#5. It will pass, it will all pass, we're going to be so happy! If our love could grow any stronger it would grow stronger because there is something horrifying in it,
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#6. I'm like a starving man who has been given food. Maybe he's cold, and his clothes are torn, and he's ashamed, but he's not unhappy.
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#7. Spring, love, happiness! Are you not weary of that stupid, meaningless, constantly repeated fraud? Always the same and always a fraud! There is no spring, no sun, no happiness!
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#8. Often seeing the success she had with young and old men and women Pierre could not understand why he did not love her.
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#9. We love people not so much for the good they've done us, as for the good we've done them.
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#10. He was not thinking that the Christian law which he had wanted to follow all his life prescribed that he forgive and love his enemies; but the joyful feeling of love and forgiveness of his enemies filled his soul.
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#11. They ought to find out how to vaccinate for love, like smallpox.
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#12. What you spoke of just now was a mistake, not love
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#14. It's not so much that he can't fall in love, but he has not the weakness necessary.
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#15. Government is violence, Christianity is meekness, non-resistance, love. And, therefore, government cannot be Christian, and a man who wishes to be a Christian must not serve government.
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#16. I love you all, and have done no harm to anyone; and what have you done to me?' - said her charming, pathetic, dead face.
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#17. We must live. We must love. And we must believe that there's more to it all than our lives on this scrap of earth.
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#18. The greatest human achievement is love.
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#19. If there is a God and future life, there is truth and good, and man's highest happiness consists in striving to attain them. We must live, we must love, and we must believe that we live not only today on this scrap of earth, but have lived and shall live
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#20. How strange it was to think that he, who such a short time ago dared not believe in the happiness of her loving him, now felt unhappy because she loved him too much!
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#21. Ambition, love of power, covetousness, lasciviousness, pride, anger, and revenge - were all respected.
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#22. The higher a man's conception of God, the better will he know Him. And the better he knows God, the nearer will he draw to Him, imitating His goodness, His mercy, and His love of man.
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#23. The hero of my tale," Tolstoy wrote when he was just twenty-seven, "whom I love with all the power of my soul, whom I have tried to portray in all its beauty, who has been, is, and always will be beautiful - is Truth.
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#24. Is it possible to love a woman who will never understand the profoundest interests of my life?
Is it possible to love a woman simply for her beauty, to love the statue of a woman?
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#25. The heroine of my writings is She, whom I love with all the forces of my being, She who always was, is and will be beautiful, is Truth
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#26. For love? What antediluvian notions you have! Can one talk of love in these days?" said the ambassador's wife.
"What's to be done? It's a foolish old fashion that's kept up still," said Vronsky.
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#27. In order to get power and retain it, it is necessary to love power; but love of power is not connected with goodness but with qualities that are the opposite of goodness, such as pride, cunning and cruelty.
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#28. Natasha, in her lilac silk dress trimmed with black lace walked, as women can walk, with the more repose and stateliness the greater the pain and shame in her soul.
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#29. She was jealous not of any particular woman but of the decrease of his love. Not having an object for her jealousy, she was on the lookout for it.
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#30. The true meaning of Christ's teaching consists in the recognition of love as the supreme law of life, and therefore not admitting any exceptions.
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#31. He remembered his mother's love for him, and his family's, and his friends', and the enemy's intention to kill him seemed impossible.
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#32. In all human sorrow nothing gives comfort but love and faith, and that in the sight of Christ's compassion for us no sorrow is trifling.
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#33. Their daughter came in in full evening dress, her fresh young flesh exposed (making a show of that very flesh which in his own case caused so much suffering), strong, healthy, evidently in love, and impatient with illness, suffering, and death, because they interfered with her happiness. Fyodor
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#34. All men love live not by what they may intend for their own well-being, but by the love that dwells in others.
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#35. When loving with human love one may pass from love to hatred, but divine love cannot change.
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#36. If you could forget and forgive what happened."
He snatched the chalk with nervous, trembling fingers, and breaking it, wrote the initial letters of the following phrase, "I have nothing to forget and to forgive; I have never ceased to love you.
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#37. Love them that hate you, but you can't love those you hate.
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#38. Every time I tried to express my most heartfelt desires to be morally good I met with contempt and ridicule; and as soon as I would give in to vile passions I was praised and encouraged. Ambition, love of power, self-interest, lechery, pride, anger, vengeance-all of it was highly esteemed.
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#39. In the love between a man and a woman there always comes a moment when this love has reached its zenith - a moment when it is unconscious, unreasoning, and with nothing sensual about it.
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#40. You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.
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#41. The meaning of life consists in the love and service of God.
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#42. We walked to meet each other up at the time of our love and then we have been irresistibly drifting in different directions, and there's no altering that.
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#43. When we do not love, we sleep, we are children of the dust - but love, and you are a god, you are pure, as on the first day of creation.
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#44. He had heard that women often love plain ordinary men, but he did not believe it, because he judged by himself and he could only love beautiful mysterious exceptional women.
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#45. Human love serves to love those dear to us but to love one's enemies we need divine love.
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#46. Every man experiences what you call love for every pretty woman and least of all for his wife. That is what the proverb says, and it is a true one. Another's wife is a swan, but one's own is bitter wormwood.
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#47. I am too proud to ever allow myself to care for a man who does not love me
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#48. Where there is love, there is God also.
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#49. By patriotism is meant, not only spontaneous, instinctive love for one's own nation, and preference for it above all other nations, but also the belief that such love and preference are good and useful.
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#50. He knew she was there by the joy and terror that took possession of his heart [ ... ] Everything was lit up by her. She was the smile that brightened everything around.
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#51. But what desires can always be satisfied despite external circumstances? What are they? Love, self-sacrifice.' He
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#52. People are always happy where there is love, because their happiness in in themselves.
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#53. I don't count life as life without love
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#54. All books are hyggelig, but classics written by authors such as Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, Leo Tolstoy, and Charles Dickens have a special place on the bookshelf. At the right age, your kids may also love to cuddle up with you in the hyggekrog and have you read to them. Probably not Tolstoy.
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#55. Then she thought of how life could still be happy, and how tormentingly she loved and hated him, and how terribly her heart was pounding.
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#57. I'm not living, I'm waiting for a solution that goes on and on being put off.
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#58. Commit no act that is contrary to love.
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#59. I've always loved you, and when you love someone, you love the whole person, just as he or she is, and not as you would like them to be.
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#60. There are as many minds as there are heads, so there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts. Leo Tolstoy
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#62. I killed the wife when I first tasted sensual joys without love, and then it was that I killed my wife.
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#63. Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind ... Fo r Love not only annihilates our fear of meaninglessness but empowers us to seek the happiness of others. And this indeed is our greatest happiness.
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#64. Then we should find some artificial inoculation against love, as with smallpox.
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#65. And all people live, Not by reason of any care they have for themselves, But by the love for them that is in other people.
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#66. One can no more approach people without love than one can approach bees without care. Such is the quality of bees ...
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#67. No," he said to himself, "however good that life of simplicity and toil may be, I cannot go back to it. I love HER.
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#68. It's hard to love a woman and do anything.
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#69. Love ... " she repeated slowly, in a musing voice, and suddenly, while disentangling the lace, she added: "The reason I dislike this word because it means such a great deal to me, far more than you can understand.
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#70. He looked at her as a man might look at a faded flower he had plucked, in which it was difficult for him to trace the beauty that had made him pick and so destroy it
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#71. Leo Tolstoy wrote: "One can live magnificently in this world, if one knows how to work and how to love, to work for the person one loves and to love one's work."19
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#72. Energy rests upon love; and come as it will, there's no forcing it.
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#73. There are two aspects," Alexey Alexandrovitch resumed: "those who take part and those who look on; and love for such spectacles is an unmistakable proof of a low degree of development in the spectator, I admit, but ...
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#74. To love life is to love God. Harder and more blessed than all else is to love this life in one's sufferings, in undeserved sufferings.
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#75. But she was not even grateful to him for it; nothing good on Pierre's part seemed to her to be an effort, it seemed so natural for him to be kind to everyone that there was no merit in his kindness.
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#76. The artist's mission must not be to produce an irrefutable solution to a problem, but to compel us to love life in all its countless and inexhaustible manifestations.
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#77. Ambition was the old dream of his youth and childhood, a dream which he did not confess even to himself, though it was so strong that now his passion was even doing battle with his love
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#78. I think that in order to know love one must make a mistake and then correct it.
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#79. It is not beauty that endears, it's love that makes us see beauty.
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#80. Rostov was not listening to the soldier. He looked at the snowflakes dancing above the fire and remembered the Russian winter with a warm, bright house, a fluffy fur coat, swift sleighs, a healthy body, and all the love and care of a family. "And why did I come here?" he wondered.
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#81. I have heard it said that women love men even for their vices," Anna began suddenly, "but I hate him for his virtues. I can't live with him. Do you understand?
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#82. If you love me as you say you do,' she whispered, 'make it so that I am at peace.
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#83. And the angel said - "I have learned that every man lives not through care of himself, but by love" ...
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#85. That in every individual a spiritual element is manifested that gives life to all that exists, and that this spiritual element strives to unite with everything of a like nature to itself, and attains this aim through love.
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#86. I think ... if it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.
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#87. The main thing, and the thing which such people as he do not understand," rejoined the lady, "is that only love consecrates marriage, and that the real marriage is that which is consecrated by love.
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#88. In marriage the great thing was love, and that with love one would always be happy, for happiness rests only on oneself.
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#89. Everything I know, I know because of love.
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#90. The goal of the artist is not to solve a question irrefutably, but to force people to love life in all its countless, inexhaustible manifestations. If
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#91. He was nine years old; he was a child; he he knew his own soul, it was precious to him, he guarded it as the eyelid guards the eye, and without the key of love he let no one into his soul.
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#92. Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It is the one thing we are interested in here.
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#93. He wanted and needed their love, but felt none towards them. He now had neither love nor humility nor purity
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#95. To say that you can love one person all your life is just like saying that one candle will continue burning as long as you live.
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#96. He was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul.
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#97. What time can be more beautiful than the one in which the finest virtues, innocent cheerfulness and indefinable longing for love constitute the sole motives of your life?
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#98. Oh God! what am I to do if I love nothing but fame and men's esteem?
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#99. He wants to prove to me that his love for me must not interfere with his freedom
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#100. The hero of my tale, whom I love with all the power of my soul, whom I have tried to portray in all his beauty, who has been, is, and will be beautiful, is Truth.
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